[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/8/2024 3:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>> LOL Always thought HP-UX was a bit weird, but it's the result of buying
>>> another unix ws vendor, whose name forget. Like some i-other unix ws
>>> vendors in the early days, the overall structure and shell commands
>>> hadn't settled down to a common core...
>>
>> I believe that you're thinking of Apollo, which had an operating
>> system called "Domain/OS" (originally "AEGIS") which was not
>> really Unix, though had a Unix "environment".  It was done from
>> scratch and more closely resembled Multics in internal
>> sturcture.
> 
> It wasn't even a little bit Unix, but it was very cool, and it offered a
> real distributed environment on workstations years before anyone else even
> thought about it.

Per Wikipedia then Aegis (SR1-SR9) was a Multics like written
in Pascal thing, but Domain/OS (SR10) supported 3 environments:
Aegis, System V and BSD Unix.

No idea how accurate it is - I have never seen an Apollo computer.

Arne